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Texas Rep. Hensarling latest GOP House retirement

WASHINGTON – Rep. Jeb Hensarling, a Texas conservative who has fought attempts to more strictly regulate Wall Street and the banking sector, said Tuesday that he’ll be the latest Republican ...

DATE: Oct 31, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

First guilty plea, indictment of Trump aides in Russia probe

WASHINGTON – In a black Monday for Donald Trump’s White House, the special counsel investigating possible coordination between the Kremlin and the Trump presidential campaign announced the f...

DATE: Oct 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump comes ahead with fresh criticism of Russia inquiry

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump expressed renewed frustration Sunday over the investigations into alleged ties between his campaign associates and Russian government officials, saying on...

DATE: Oct 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

US agrees to pay tea party groups in suits over IRS scrutiny

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration has agreed to what a lawyer described as a “very substantial” payout to hundreds of tea party groups to settle a class-action lawsuit over the extra, of...

DATE: Oct 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

No GOP dam break: Senators rally behind Trump and his agenda

WASHINGTON – There was no dam break of Republican rancor against Donald Trump on Wednesday, a day after a pair of the party’s prominent senators denounced their president and invited colleag...

DATE: Oct 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Flake will retire, citing direction of GOP under Trump

‘I rise to say enough’ senator tells colleagues

DATE: Oct 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

McCain critiques Trump without labeling him ‘draft dodger’

WASHINGTON – Republican Sen. John McCain left no doubt Monday that he was thinking of President Donald Trump as he criticized the draft system during Vietnam for forcing low-income Americans...

DATE: Oct 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

National Democrats are jittery about Virginia governor’s race

LAS VEGAS – The Democratic National Committee gathered here over the past week with one worry on every activist’s mind: We’d better not lose the Virginia governor’s race. It’s a ...

DATE: Oct 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Democrats slam GOP budget on taxes, health care cuts

WASHINGTON – The Republican-led Senate rejected Democratic attempts to spare health programs for the poor and elderly from cuts, absorbing political hits as the price for advancing a $4 tril...

DATE: Oct 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Former drug czar nominee Marino defends role in opioid law

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s former nominee to be the nation’s drug czar is defending his role in writing a law that critics say weakened the government’s authority to stop companie...

DATE: Oct 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump says Comey knew he was going to exonerate Clinton

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Wednesday to revive his long-standing complaint about the FBI’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email server investigation, alleging th...

DATE: Oct 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Cochran’s illness shows risks to GOP leaders of aging Senate

WASHINGTON – Top Republicans coping with a razor-thin majority in the Senate as they try pushing a partisan agenda are running smack into another complication – the sheer age and health issu...

DATE: Oct 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World